AGAINST THE ODDS - A child has a one in 365.25 chance of being born on Christmas Day. For most kids that isn’t such a great thing when it comes to presents and birthday parties.
Christmas was a landmark life in the day of James Erwin Loyd of Laurens County. Loyd was born on Christmas Day in 1866. He died on his 82nd birthday on Christmas Day in 1948. The odds of being born and dying on Christmas Day are 1:133,225.
His wife Leonia Wood Loyd was born on March 15, 1876, still known to some as “The Ides of March,” a day on which Julius Caesar suffered his mortal fate. She died in 1944. The date of course was March 15th, her 68th birthday. The Loyds are buried in the Union Baptist Church cemetery on the Soperton Highway just north of Minter. The odds of being born on the Ides of March and and dying on he Ides of March are well, the same as being born and dying on any other day.
And, what are the odds of a married couple each being born and dying on their birthday? Mr. Spock, what are the odds? My guess is 1 in 17,748,900,625.
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